In the sports stadiums (particularly in America) it was not uncommon to read "John 3:16" on a sign in the crowded bleachers. This was some time ago. And not a lot of attention was drawn to it even then. It was just there. Now it's rare to see if ever anymore. It was just a blurb. A reminder what is real. But most today do not want to know what is real (in some cases violently so).
Perhaps it was more platitude than witness. But it is discouraging that folks generally don't seem concerned at all... I'm thinking of the passages in Jeremiah where the Lord laments the people's worldliness in that they do not even know how to blush.
It's a natural condition of man. To slide back into worldliness. To lower our guard and revert back to our wallowing in the mud like a swine and return to the vomit like a dog. Not all things natural are good. We have been sold a bill of goods as far as that goes "all natural." Rather, non-processed is what is good. All natural is seldom good, it requires harvesting and some processing take rice or oats for example. If all natural is so good then potty training ought to be outlawed.
We are called to rise above our natures. To believe in a God our natures cannot even detect. Is homosexuality inborn? I am one who grants that premise but I will not allow it to be used as a cop out. All sin is inborn as far as human beings are concerned. But we are called to rise above it through faith in he who became a man like sinless Adam to lay that life down to pay our sin debt, who rose bodily from the dead so that we through that same faith in him can lock in that state of rising above our natures for all eternity.
And the older I get the less I see of the Messianic effect on society (Christian influence, as it is more commonly known). Admittedly I came here the most recent time (having long been a member of this board) to show people that it's all Messiah, all Messianic, all Jewish, all Israel. But I see it is necessary for us all (including myself) to take elementary refresher courses in the person of the Messiah, Yeshua HaNotzri... because he has been getting left out a lot lately (even here).
Perhaps it was more platitude than witness. But it is discouraging that folks generally don't seem concerned at all... I'm thinking of the passages in Jeremiah where the Lord laments the people's worldliness in that they do not even know how to blush.
It's a natural condition of man. To slide back into worldliness. To lower our guard and revert back to our wallowing in the mud like a swine and return to the vomit like a dog. Not all things natural are good. We have been sold a bill of goods as far as that goes "all natural." Rather, non-processed is what is good. All natural is seldom good, it requires harvesting and some processing take rice or oats for example. If all natural is so good then potty training ought to be outlawed.
We are called to rise above our natures. To believe in a God our natures cannot even detect. Is homosexuality inborn? I am one who grants that premise but I will not allow it to be used as a cop out. All sin is inborn as far as human beings are concerned. But we are called to rise above it through faith in he who became a man like sinless Adam to lay that life down to pay our sin debt, who rose bodily from the dead so that we through that same faith in him can lock in that state of rising above our natures for all eternity.
And the older I get the less I see of the Messianic effect on society (Christian influence, as it is more commonly known). Admittedly I came here the most recent time (having long been a member of this board) to show people that it's all Messiah, all Messianic, all Jewish, all Israel. But I see it is necessary for us all (including myself) to take elementary refresher courses in the person of the Messiah, Yeshua HaNotzri... because he has been getting left out a lot lately (even here).
